The new administration of US President Joe Biden intends to review the recent designation of Yemen’s Houthi movement as a “terrorist” group, and end support for the Saudi-led coalition as the devastating Yemen war approaches [ More … ]
UK foreign Secretary says Houthis must ‘cease their aggression’ following attack which triggered explosion but left no injuries An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a Saudi Aramco oil facility in the Red Sea city [ More … ]
The Houthis denounce the attack as ‘a criminal act’ by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. Yemen’s Houthi movement announced on Tuesday that Hassan Zaid, its minister of youth and sports affairs, was gunned down in the capital Sanaa [ More … ]
The Houthi-allied Yemeni armed forces have retaken Al-Labnat military base in Al-Jawf province from the Saudi-backed mercenaries fighting to reinstate exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. This is the first time in five years that it [ More … ]
The recent drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities severely disrupted global energy infrastructure and sent oil price soaring. Some observers say this is a hit to the jugular of the kingdom’s oil industry, but escalation [ More … ]
Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in clashes and air raids around the Yemeni city of Hodeidah following the collapse of UN-sponsored peace talks between the internationally recognised government and Houthi rebels. Fears of escalation after UN-sponsored peace [ More … ]
The 4 December death of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, at the hands of his former Houthi coalition partners, is a culmination of the differing interests that informed the coalition’s initial inception, and alludes [ More … ]
UN refugee agency condemns attack on makeshift camp in Mawza, Taiz, which killed members of family who fled fighting in nearby Mokha At least 20 Yemeni civilians who fled fighting in their home town have [ More … ]
A fifteen-day battle to capture an important military base to the east of Taiz was concluded in Yemen on Sunday, after Saudi-led coalition forces overpowered rebel fighters. Government troops reportedly killed 20 rebel Houthi fighters [ More … ]
Forces backed by the United Arab Emirates have taken over the airport in Yemen’s southern city of Aden, according to Yemeni security officials Forces backed by the United Arab Emirates have taken over the airport [ More … ]
The bacterial infection was at large instigated by the Houthi-run Sana’a government’s neglect of environmental hygiene, experts say. The number of deaths from the cholera epidemic in Yemen has surpassed 470, according to figures released [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative at the UN, Abdullah Al-Mouallimi, said the human aspect in the Yemen war is most important for the Arab coalition waging military operations to restore government legitimacy there, contradicting propaganda circulated [ More … ]
Houthi militias and fighters of ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh continue to plant land and sea mines amid international silence. This is despite the fact that the use of such explosives is considered a crime [ More … ]
Thousands of people have died, and even more injured and displaced from their homes as fighting rages in Yemen. The New Arab has published a report titled, “Taiz: Life and death in Yemen’s theater of [ More … ]
President Barack Obama’s administration has cancelled the transfer of some military support to ally Saudi Arabia, because of concerns over widespread civilian death toll from the Kingdom’s campaign in Yemen. In addition to halting the [ More … ]
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